DomOct 29, 201947 minGrosser and Coffin Lid Ride Out This short story originally appeared in the 2018 fantasy anthology "It's a Living", a collection of short stories based on the everyday l...
DomJun 4, 20192 min‘Chernobyl’, Culture Wars and 21st Century TruthChernobyl, HBOs hit drama is now the highest-rated TV programme on IMDB – no mean feat for a story ostensibly about 1980s Soviet energy p...
DomMay 25, 20193 minComing soon: Timberwolf Another rare blog entry, and a shameless plug. Hey, what did you expect? My new book, ‘Timberwolf’, is out this summer. It’s the Dieselpu...
DomJan 8, 20192 minNew Year, New Stuff Happy New Year. I haven’t had a drink for eight days. That’s all I'm going to say about 2019 in general. However, on the writing front, ‘...
DomNov 14, 20181 minADLER HQ SITREP – November 2018Hello. After the release of ‘Dark as Angels’ in September, the autumn has seen me getting stuck into some editing, mainly for Timberwolf ...
DomSep 24, 20184 minThe No-Rules world of 'Bodyguard'So Bodyguard is done. Shaggy, Daphne and Fred pulled the rubber mask off David Budd’s boss, revealing her as a bent copper in super-crimi...
DomSep 5, 20183 min'Bodyguard' got me thinking... Bodyguard is the enjoyably silly new Sunday night pot-boiler on the BBC, with Keeley Hawes and Richard Madden. I was talking about it on ...
DomSep 4, 20181 minNew interview on 'Messy Business' with Jason Beech. Jason kindly asked me to talk about something I'd wish I'd written - and smitten as I am with the 'Wolfhound Empire' trilogy, I chose the...
DomSep 1, 20182 minDark as Angels - coming September 2018My new novel, ‘Dark as Angels’ is out this month! Here’s the blurb… · Rufus Hooker – trouble-shooter. Bounty-hunter. Private eye. · Speci...
DomSep 1, 20182 minAdler HQ SITREP - September 2018Where did that long, hot summer go? Here in the UK it was steamy, but happily it’s almost over (I’m more of a temperate weather person). ...
DomJun 2, 20183 minAdler HQ SITREP - June 2018Sometimes I write updates just to remind *me* of what I’m doing, let alone anybody else. And, occasionally, I even put them on a blog. I’...
DomApr 23, 20182 minA hundred-thousand words100,000 words. Whoa. This is a screen-grab from my work-in-progress, a science-fantasy novel called 'Timberwolf'. I've been more or less ...
DomMar 31, 20181 minInterview on 'Messy Business' by Jason BeechJason Beech, who writes Americana so hard-boiled you could break rocks with it, interviewed me on his 'Messy Business' blog. Check it out...
DomMar 15, 20185 minThe Reading List of the Adlerverse (Part III) - Fantasy and Science-FictionBig door-stop novels full of aliens, space battles, wizards, monsters and lady-barbarians in chainmail bikinis? Those were the days. I wa...
DomMar 12, 20183 minThe Reading List of the Adlerverse (Part II - Historical Fiction)History is a good discipline for any detective - the importance of sources, of conflicting accounts, realising the first allegation is th...
DomFeb 5, 20185 minThe Reading List of the Adlerverse (Part I - The Thrillers) Every writer has books that make up their inspirational source-code, helping shape the stories they want to tell. These books kicked me u...